Track Your Water Usage

Keeping tabs on your water usage now can help prevent allocation shortages towards the end of the current, 2013-2017 allocation period. Get your irrigation well meter reading before you began irrigating this year, your current reading, then click on the "Irrigation Calculator" tab on the home page. If you do not have your pre-irrigation reading, refer to your 2014 water usage letter from the NRD or contact NRD staff.

The Upper Republican Natural Resources District’s board, constituents and staff preserve and protect groundwater and other natural resources in a three-county region of Southwest Nebraska using a combination of regulations and incentive programs. The District uses its groundwater-management authorities to sustain the region’s strong, agricultural-based economy over the long term so future generations can enjoy the quality of life that exists within the District. The Upper Republican NRD also works closely with the State of Nebraska and other NRDs to implement and operate projects that maintain compliance with an interstate water compact, the Republican River Compact.

Upper Republican Natural Resources District

Dickens, Neb. – The NCORPE augmentation project in Lincoln County has ceased Republican River Compact compliance operations for 2015, having prevented an irrigation shutdown on approximately 300,000 acres in the Republican Basin in 2014 and 2015.“An irrigation shutdown o...

Republican River Compact Compliance: Overview of February 2015 U.S. Supreme Court Ruling“The court’s decision is a victory for common sense, grounded in science…” Omaha World Herald editorial, Feb. 27, 2015 The accounting change approved by the court dwarfs...